Recent downtime

[Charley]

Hi folks,

Sorry if you had problems connecting to the site this weekend. Our DNS provider came under attack affecting all their DNS servers (in multiple data-centres around the world). Unfortunately I was away camping with a very flakey connection and couldn't re-route the DNS (not that it would of been an instant fix anyway). DNS can be a strange thing , some of you may still be having the odd connection issue but things should hopefully get back to normal soon.

Obviously I took for granted the redundant service provided to me and as this proves I shouldn't rely on just one company. I'll be getting my old DNS system setup again shortly so we can avoid this happening again in the future...

 

[paulm]

Appreciate the update Charley.

Cheers, Paul

 

[pip1954]

cheers charley
pip

 

[Grahamshed]

never knock DNS attacks. It makes us appreciate UKWorkshop even more when it comes back.

 

[SammyQ]

Missed ya!

 

[gregmcateer]

Ta for the update and for the excellent resource you guys offer (almost) every day of the year - Thanks

 

[RogerS]

Is it still playing up? Last few days, I got an unavailable response.

 

[Charley]

Is it still playing up? Last few days, I got an unavailable response.

The DNS *should* be working fine now. The server did experience high load yesterday evening and again this afternoon (working on that at the moment) which would of caused some connection problems.